EANS-News: Hypoport considerably boosts revenue and profitability - Financial results for the first half of 2012

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Berlin, 6 August 2012 (euro adhoc) - Despite continued challenging
market conditions, web-based financial service provider Hypoport
generated significant growth in all business units and thereby bucked
the market trend in the first six months of 2012. Revenue rose by 17
per cent to EUR42 million, enabling the company to expand its market
share. EBITDA increased by 34 per cent to EUR5.2 million.

"A company that wishes to grow in a stagnant financial services
market needs the best talent available and a diversified, innovative
business model," believes Ronald Slabke, Chief Executive Officer of
Hypoport AG. "Our half-year figures show that we have the right
'genes' to achieve steady and profitable growth with, and for the
benefit of, our customers and partners in a consolidated market
environment."

Hypoport's revenue went up by 17 per cent to EUR42 million (HY1 2011:
EUR35.8 million) on the back of double-digit revenue growth in all
three of its business units. The Financial Service Providers business
unit has benefited from benign funding conditions, the continued
popularity of its consumer-friendly 'open' architecture in the
distribution of financial services, and the ongoing expansion of the
EUROPACE marketplace owing to its success in attracting new product
suppliers and advisors. The low level of interest rates has also
boosted lending business and, consequently, revenue growth in the
Private Clients business unit. Forthcoming and recently introduced
regulation in the insurance market in conjunction with the volatility
of capital markets are proving to be highly disconcerting for product
suppliers, intermediaries and consumers in this product segment,
causing them to behave very cautiously. The Institutional Clients
business unit has expanded its leading position as a financial and
insurance advisor to German housing companies, local authorities and
commercial property investors. Its success in closing several
big-ticket financing deals with customers provided an additional
boost to its growth.

The strong revenue growth across the three business units, which
resulted in EBITDA of EUR5.2 million (HY1 2011: EUR3.9 million), also
resulted in a sharp rise in profitability. Assuming that the market
environment remains unchanged, Ronald Slabke still expects the
Company to achieve double-digit revenue growth and a year-on-year
improvement in net profit for 2012 as a whole.

The Report can be downloaded under www.hypoport.com/reports.html

Information on Hypoport AG As an independent financial product
distributor that runs a B2B financial marketplace, Hypoport operates
successfully in two mutually reinforcing segments. It always provides
the simplest access to the best financial services. Europace AG - a
wholly owned Hypoport subsidiary - develops and operates EUROPACE,
which is an online financial marketplace and the largest German
platform offering mortgages, building finance products and personal
loans. A fully integrated system links roughly 180 partners - banks,
insurers and financial product distributors. Several thousand users
execute over 20,000 transactions worth a total of up to EUR3 billion
on EUROPACE every month. The Hypoport subsidiary Dr. Klein & Co. AG
is an independent online distributor of financial products. This
firm's specialists provide private clients with a full range of
advisory services around mortgage finance, insurance and investments.
Dr. Klein & Co. AG has been a major financial service partner to
housing companies, local authorities and commercial property
investors since 1954. Hypoport AG is headquartered in Berlin, employs
more than 500 people and is listed in the Prime Standard of the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Further inquiry note:
Michaela Reimann
Press spokesperson
Telefon: +49 (0) 30 42086 1936
E-Mail: michaela.reimann@hypoport.de

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company: Hypoport AG
Klosterstraße 71
D-10179 Berlin
phone: +49(0)30 42086-0
FAX: +49(0)30 42086-1999
mail: ir@hypoport.de
WWW: http://www.hypoport.de
sector: Financial & Business Services
ISIN: DE0005493365
indexes: CDAX, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English